#Chapter64

Gone

|Nate|

I was waking up from a terrible nightmare.

The girl who I loved had left me.

Only, it wasn't a dream.

I knew it was real as soon as I opened my eyes.

"Verena." I mumbled her name incoherently in my half-conscious state, as if it would somehow make her come back.

"Hey, man." Someone spoke up.

It took me a while to recognize my best-friend's voice in my hysteric state.

"Marcus?" I muttered finally. My voice was hoarse.

"You look like crap." He responded.

I tried to chuckle but the stab of pain in my ribs stopped me abruptly.

His hand squeezed my shoulder gently. "I'm...